The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England

by Paula R. Backscheider (Editor), Timothy Dykstal (Editor)

The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate.

280 pages, Paperback

First published May 31, 1996